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NETHER GLENNY 23

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Canmore ID 78343 SCRAP ID 1835
Location OS Grid Ref: NN 56202 01881 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 19/11/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name NETHER GLENNY Number 23
Other names Nether Glenny 24.02, Menteith 15 (van Hoek)
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup And Ring Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
PERTHSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NN 56210 01960
New OS NGR NN 56202 01881
Lat/Long 56.18777 -4.31865
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Cloudy
Position in landscape Hillside
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Sloping
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) S

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing
  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • Mature

B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

An area of exposed bedrock located on the W side of a small knoll in rough grazing and bracken on the S facing hill slope looking out towards Lake Menteith and the Campsie Fells. The panel is about 10m E of the stone dyke at the edge of the mature pine forest and about 11m N of the modern wire fence. Nether Glenny 22 is roughly 40m to the E and Nether Glenny 24 is 2m to the S.

Previous Notes

NN50SE 24.01 5621 0196 173m OD. Outcrop with one cup. M van Hoek 1989. This outcrop could not be located on the date of visit. Visited by RCAHMS (JS & DE) 15 May 1995

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Outcrop

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 2 Width 0.9
Height (max) 0 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
14 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface W Carved Surface W Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Friable Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Not Visible
 Rock Type Sandstone

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is an elongated area of bedrock flush with the ground and sloping to the W. There are several longitudinal fissures and natural circular or sub-circular hollows, and a wide turf-filled fissure running across the upper (E) part of the panel. There are at least 4 possible cups, of which only 2 are relatively convincing, as well as a curvilinear, slightly hooked groove on the upper section of the panel that has not previously been recorded.

C6. Probability

The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is Definite

Comments

And 1 or 2 further possible cups that are more likely to be natural features.

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
2
Groove
groove_6
1

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

D2. Awareness

  • No selection
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added